Posted on 03/17/2011 4:11:06 AM PDT by NCjim
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.
Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels measurable but minuscule.
The projection, by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an arm of the United Nations in Vienna, gives no information about actual radiation levels but only shows how a radioactive plume would probably move and disperse.
The forecast, calculated Tuesday, is based on patterns of Pacific winds at that time and the predicted path is likely to change as weather patterns shift.
On Sunday, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it expected that no “harmful levels of radioactivity” would travel from Japan to the United States “given the thousands of miles between the two countries.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I like the terminology: a “plume.”
I don’t believe anything that crooked organization says.
P.S.
Or the New York Slime.
I wonder how many times this ignorant bull$h!t from the UN/NYT us going to get posted. They can’t even figure out which way the wind blows in the norther hemisphere.
How about the highly scientific term “churning”?
Like an invisible radioactive meat grinder searching out the soft parts of your body.
Are they just working to sell papers?
I’m surprised that there isn’t a bunch of super-nerd computer experts trolling the internet controlling panic, controlling disinformation, keeping the peasants happy, keeping them addicted to buying and spending, keeping them from knowing the truth.
Like the movie where they have to drill to the earths core to detonate a nuclear device to “jump start” the magnetic rotation of the inner core, well they assigned the worlds best computer expert to troll the web and to keep the people in the dark.
Seems like we suddenly have a herd instinct on the web, problem is are those at the head of the herd acting in our best wishes?
I can honestly say this, anything even remotely radioactive will bring down the Feds big time. First off look at the possible terrorist angle, what if a theme park visitor at Disneyland in Anaheim goes on Youtube with a Geiger counter clicking away against a handful of the Magic Kingdom pixie dust?
Even a contrived and manufactured event would kill tourism.
But then again, what if?
Doesn’t this feature a big assumption and “maybe”? Maybe Godzilla will be awakened, come to my hometown in this “suggested” plume and bite me. This is scare-mongering at its best. Who are these purported “scientists”, who is paying them to make these fear-mongering assumptions and what is their political agenda? First...is there even a “plume”? I read that there is some radioactive steam, but I believe that steam wouldn’t travel several thousand miles across the world’s largest ocean without dispersing and losing any miniscule “radiation”. What buffoonery.
Any Washington beachcomber who looks for the treasured glass fishnet float from Japanese fishing nets,know what I'm talking about.
You know what I hope people do panic about this radiation that is advancing upon America.
Really I want people to to run around like a chicken with their heads cut off.
I want absolute bedlam, bare shelves, hoarding, gas lines, duct tape shortages.
Because every part of the events can and should be blamed upon the do-nothing POTUS, Obama.
"You know what I hope people do panic about this radiation that is advancing upon America. Really I want people to to run around like a chicken with their heads cut off. I want absolute bedlam, bare shelves, hoarding, gas lines, duct tape shortages."You don't know what you wish for. Because, if things come to pass. 1) Federal martial law. Possible curfew. 2) One day you type freerepublic.com into your browser window and all you get is not responding". Under emergency powers (formerly reserved for nuclear war) the Feds and the FCC will seize control of all communications. "Opposition" sites shut down (a.k.a FBI goes to the building where the servers are and pulls the plug) You don't really want to hear about 4) and 5)
That’s when WE plead for the global community to enforce a ‘no fly’ zone over North America!!
Fearing it just postpones the inevitable, better to force the hand that wields such decisions,
And then cut the hand off.
Thats the problem, everyone is too afraid to speak out, too afraid to lose a connection with their Ipad, too afraid that they will lose their guns.
That is THE problem, FEAR
America refuses to face fear, and so fear rules us.
Friday? Isn't that the day the Obamas are leaving the country? Retreating to the Southern Hemisphere? How convenient.
The title of the article should be “Radiation Drift Harmless For US.”
In other news, the Surgeon General said US citizens should be prepared anyway.
That's NEw Age Mystical speak your using....Americans know well how to face fear....9/11 comes to mind. What they cant do is face facts because they let the media do their "thinking" for them. Just as with the hocus pocus new age dribble fries critical thinking.
The headline of the article is contrived for maximum fear mongering. The contents of the article are a bit more mundane, and have, at best, academic interest.
I love how this little gem is buried towards the end:
“In Germany on Wednesday, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection held a news conference that described the threat from the Japanese plume as trifling and said there was no need for people to take iodine tablets.”
In reality, the only type of explosion I can think of that has the power to force a significant amount of radioactive material into the air would be a volcanic one. Most people don’t even think about the radiation thrown into the air by volcanos, nor should they.
Indeed, the biggest issue in Japan right now is not the actions being taken following the damage to the power plant. The fact that thousands of people are dead, missing, or homeless, and access to vital services has been interrupted is a tad more important.
I wonder when the surgeon general is going to package foods with labels saying...”Eat this and you could die”..with all the obesity deaths and illness...or a warning that only so many fork fulls is allowed before death knocks at their door”...
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